From: Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net>
To: "Conway S. Smith" <beolach@comcast.net>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aterm pseudo transparancy tint
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:33:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41EE3784.7060506@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EE8049.9090507@comcast.net>
Conway S. Smith wrote:
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>Jeremy Abbott wrote:
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>>Jeremy Abbott wrote:
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>>>Does anyone know if there is a way to set the tint color of an aterm
>>>to be random? Right now I am executing the following:
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>>>aterm -tr -tint blue -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
>>>
>>>I know I can write a script to randomize the color if I need to, I'm
>>>just not sure how to implement it with the -tint switch.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jeremy Abbott
>>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>It just occured to me that I can do this by writing a script to randomly
>>choose from a list of aterm calls, rather than just randomizing the tint
>>color. I can do this if need be, but am still curious if just the tint
>>color by itself can be randomized.
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>>Jeremy Abbott
>>jkbullfrog@comcast.net
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>Make your script echo the randomly selected color on stdout, and
>surround it with back-quotes, like so:
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>aterm -tr -tint `random_color.sh` -trsb -rv -geometry 179x33 --font4
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>HTH,
>Conway S. Smith
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Thanks, I believe that will do the trick.
Jeremy Abbott
jkbullfrog@comcast.net
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 13:48 aterm pseudo transparancy tint Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-18 14:01 ` Jeremy Abbott
2005-01-19 15:44 ` Conway S. Smith
2005-01-19 10:33 ` Jeremy Abbott [this message]
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